<div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div>It seems Commissioner McDowell and the FCC are not the only people in DC concerned about the "engineering morass" etc..</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://congressionalcybersecuritycaucus.langevin.house.gov/news/press-releases/2012/03/mccaul-langevin-lead-bipartisan-effort-to-prevent-international-internet-regulations.shtml" target="_blank">http://congressionalcybersecuritycaucus.langevin.house.gov/news/press-releases/2012/03/mccaul-langevin-lead-bipartisan-effort-to-prevent-international-internet-regulations.shtml</a>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Congressmen Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Jim Langevin (D-RI), Co-Chairs of the House Cybersecurity Caucus, introduced legislation today urging the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations to oppose any resolution that would allow regulation of the Internet. <br>
<br>China and Russia are leading efforts before the UN to seek such a resolution, under which the UN would give license to authoritarian governments to continue censoring the Internet and perpetuate their assault on individual liberties. H. Con. Res. 114 is consistent with the White House’s May 2011 International Strategy for Cyberspace, which calls on the United States to preserve, enhance and increase access to an open, global Internet.<br>
<br>“Any action taken by the United Nations to attempt to limit Americans’ right to free and open Internet content is unacceptable," said Congressman McCaul, who served as an advisor on cybersecurity on Speaker Boehner's High Tech Task Force. "The Internet’s current multi-stakeholder model has provided an unburdened environment for ideas and inventions to thrive. No single state should have control over content and information must be freely disseminated." <br>
<br>“The proposals by some nations to gain international approval of policies that could result in Internet censorship would be a significant setback for anyone who believes free expression is a universal right,” said Congressman Langevin, who co-founded the Cybersecurity Caucus with McCaul in 2008. “It must be made clear that efforts to secure the Internet against malicious hacking do not need to interfere with this freedom and the United States will oppose any attempt to blur the line between the two.” <br>
<br>Last week, Reporters Without Borders, in its <a href="http://en.rsf.org/IMG/pdf/rapport-internet2012_ang.pdf" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;color:rgb(28,73,119);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">annual report on Internet freedom and worldwide freedom of expression</a>, listed 12 nations as “enemies of the Internet” including Iran, Syria, China, North Korea, Cuba and Uzbekistan. <br>
<br>In a <a href="http://blog.internetgovernance.org/pdf/UN-infosec-code.pdf" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;color:rgb(28,73,119);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">September letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations</a>, the Permanent Representatives to the United Nations from China, Russian, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, stated their intention to offer a UN resolution calling for an international code of conduct for information technology security, and stated that it is their belief that the governments of these countries should be able to control and influence public internet-related issues.<br>
<br>“Every member of Congress and the president can be in agreement that there is no area where the need for vigilance is more necessary than in preserving our First Amendment right to free speech and open access to information,” Rep. McCaul said. <br>
<br>Reps. McCaul and Langevin served as co-chairs of the Center for Strategic and International Studies' (CSIS) Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency, which presented <a href="http://blog.internetgovernance.org/pdf/UN-infosec-code.pdf" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;color:rgb(28,73,119);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">cybersecurity recommendations</a> to President Obama just before he took office.</span></p>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Legislation</span></h6><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;list-style:inherit;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Geneva,sans-serif;line-height:19px">
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<a href="http://langevin.house.gov/resources/UN%20Internet%20Bill.pdf" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;color:rgb(28,73,119);text-decoration:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank">Full text of the House Concurrent Resolution submitted today by Reps. McCaul and Langevin.</a></li>
</ul><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px">which reads:</span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><br>
</span></font></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States</div>
</span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>should preserve, enhance, and increase access to an open,</div></span></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>global Internet.</div></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>
<br></div></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>Whereas in a September 12, 2011, letter to the</div></span></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations, the Permanent</div></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>
Representatives of China, the Russian Federation,</div></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div><br></div></span></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan to the United Nations wrote of</div></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>
their intention to offer a General Assembly resolution</div></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>calling for an international code of conduct for information</div>
</span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>security;</div></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>
<br></div></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>Whereas this proposed code seeks to establish international</div></span></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>legal justification for exclusive government control over</div></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>
<br></div></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>Internet resources and rejects the current multi-stakeholder</div></span></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>model that has enabled the Internet to flourish, where the</div></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>
private sector, civil society, academia, and individual</div></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>users played an important role in charting its direction;</div>
</span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div><br></div></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>
Whereas countries have obligations to protect human rights,</div></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>which apply to activity online as well as offline;</div>
</span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div><br></div></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>
Whereas the ability to innovate, develop technical capacity,</div></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>grasp economic opportunities, and promote freedom of</div>
</span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>expression online is best realized in cooperation with all</div></span></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>stakeholders;</div></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>
<br></div></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>Whereas the proposed code represents a threat to the free</div></span></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>flow of information on the Internet and would diminish the</div></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>
universal right to freedom of expression in favor of</div></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>government control over content in order to preserve</div>
</span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>political stability, contrary to international law; Whereas</div></span></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>the position of the United States Government is and</div></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>
<br></div></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>has been to advocate for the free flow of information,</div></span></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>Internet freedom, and multi-stakeholder governance</div></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>
internationally; and</div></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div><br></div></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>
Whereas the White House’s May 2011 International Strategy</div></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>for Cyberspace makes an open, global internet a clear policy</div>
</span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>priority of the United States: Now, therefore, be it</div></span></font></div>
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Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate</div></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>concurring),</div></span></font></div>
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That it is the sense of Congress that if a reso- lution</div></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>calling for endorsement of the proposed inter- national code</div>
</span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>of conduct for information security or a res- olution</div></span></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>inconsistent with the principles above comes up for a vote</div></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>
in the United Nations General Assembly or other</div></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>international organization, the Permanent Representative of</div>
</span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(153,153,153)"><div>the United States to the United Nations or the United States</div></span></font></div>
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should oppose such a resolution.</div></span></font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font color="#888888">-- <br>---------------------------------------------------------------<br>Joly MacFie <a href="tel:218%20565%209365" value="+12185659365" target="_blank">218 565 9365</a> Skype:punkcast<br>
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